Tilting apparatus



Oct. 16, 1945. D, H, MWCHEL ET AL 2,386,906

TILTING APPARATUS Filed Dec. 4, 1943 0. H. MITCHELL RRPOLLARD enmww A TTORNEK Patented Oct. 16, 1945 UNlT ED STATE-S PATENT" "other:

Bollard,r East Orange, N. 1., assignors to westem Electric Company, Incorporated. New

I York. N. Y., a corporation of New York ne lastinnneeemirer 4, 194a, are. 512,948:

2 Claims. le 248-513)..

This invention relates tilting apparatus, and end of the= shafit 32 with an output shaft 340$ a more particularly to apparatus for tilting artispeed reduction gear mechanism or unit 35. a cles aboutagiven axis. input shaft 36 of the unit 35 has a hand wheel An object of the invention is to provide a sim- 31 mounted thereon and through the aid of ple, efiicient and practical apparatus for tilting 5 which the unit may be operated to cause rota-. articles. tion of the shafts linked therewith to move the With this and other objects in view, the invensupport 6 and the article about the axes of the tion comprises a support for an article mounted shafts 30 and 32. The unit 35 is mounted upon for movement about a given axis, with operable an'auxiliary frame 40 which is fixed to the side means to repeatedly move the support with the I2 of the main frame I0.

article about the axis and associated means to .A dial 4|, of the contour shown in Fig. 2, is indicate the angular position of the center line of fixed as at 43 to the channel member 24 and has the article. indications 44 on its periphery representing de- Other objects and advantages will be apparent grees in both directions from a zero position. A from the following detailed description when conpointer 45, mounted upon a bracket 46 fixed to sidered in conjunction with the accompanying the side I2 of the frame I0, is positioned to regdrawing, wherein ister with the indications 44 to indicate the dis- Fig. 1 is a front elevational View of the appatance or degrees the article has been moved from mills. n the zero position. When the zero indication on Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the appathe dial registers with the pointer, then the center ratus. line of the article will lie in a true horizontal Referring now to the drawing, a main frame plane.

is indicated generally at I0 and formed of suit- Upon considering the operation of the apparaable angle members and reenforcing strips, sides tus, let it be assumed that the article 20 is mount- II and I2 of the frame being substantially trianed upon the support I6. When in this position gular in general contour and having bearings I4 it will be known that the center line of the arand I5 mounted upon the upper ends thereof. An ticle intersects the axis about which the article article support IB has anarcuate cutaway portion will be moved. It will further be known that or opening I! adjacent the edge of which is disthe center of gravity of the article is a given disposed a plurality of apertures I8. To this suptance from the axis of the support but at a point port an article 20 is secured through the aid of in the center line of the article. Therefore, by machine screws 2I or the like passing through the rotating the hand wheel 31, the support I6 with apertures I8 and connecting a flange 22, or the the article 20 may be moved in either direction like, at the open end of the article 20. The exfrom the zero position to locate the article with act structure of the article and the effect of the its center line at a given angular position with apparatus thereon cannot be defined due to the respect to a true horizontal plane. This is made fact that, at the present time, the article is claspossible by the actuation of the mechanism in the sified as secret under government regulation. It unit 35, the rotation of. the output shaft 34, the is important, however, to set forth that the center coupling 33, and the shaft 32. The amount of line of the article intersects the aligned center 0 this movement in either direction may be visuallines or axes of the shafts carrying the support ized and determined through the aid of the point- I6 and that the said axes lie in a true horizontal er and the indications on the dial 4I. Furplane. The support I6 includes side members 23 thermore, the unit 35 is adapted to hold the supof the contours shown in Fig. 2, including therein port IS with the article 20 locked in any of the channel members 24 and bearings 25 and 26. A 45 positions, the output shaft 34 thereof being achorizontal member 21, fixed to the support I6 tuated only by actuation of the wheel 31.

near the lower edge thereof, is connected to the It is realized that the purpose and function of sides 23 to complete the reenforcing and supportthe apparatus could be made clearer if it were ing means for the support I6. possible to reveal the inner structure of the ar- A shaft 30,- mounted in the bearing I4, extends 50 ticle and the necessity of mounting the article through a spacing member 3I and into the bearin a known position and moving .it into various ing 25. In axial alignment with the shaft 30, a other known positions. Perhaps it would be helpshaft 32 is disposed in and fixed to the bearing ful to state that a certain mechanism is housed member 26, the shaft being supported rotatably in the article and, due to the various positions in by the bearing I5. A coupling 33 joins the outer which the article may be disposed, it is important l. A tilting apparatus for a hollow article hav;,-

ing an open end, the apparatus comprising a"""' supporting frame, an element having aQ'QpQIL'iIlgjj-I', therein conforming to the open end of the a1;-

ticle, means carried by the fra the element for movement ab means carried by the supporttose I end of the article thereto at the sald opening ing the said axis, and means operativelycon nected to the element to move the element with the artio1e;into,arplnralityror 2. A tilting apparatus for a hollow article having an open end with an integral flange at the open end and spaced apertures in the flange, the apparatus comprising a supporting frame, an element having an opening therein conforming to the open end of the article and adjacent apertures positioned to register with thesaid apertur'es the "flange of the :a'rticIe, 'means carried by the frame f or 'supporting" the element for movement about a given axis, means disposed in the said apertures of the element and the flange of thegarticle to secure the open end of the article to the support at the said opening and with the center line-of -the' article intersecting the said ards adriving member, and a speed reducing unit interposed between the driving member and the element to cause movement of the element with and with the center line of the. article 'interse'cta ms, V

' DONALD H. MITCHELL. l IQROBERT R.'POLI.1ARD.

the article intoa plurality of positions about the 

